Heed vs Leed - What's the difference?
heed | leed |
Careful attention.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
* Dryden
* 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, "
(archaic) To pay attention, care.
Language; tongue.
A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
Patter; rigmarole.
As nouns the difference between heed and leed
is that heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath while leed is sorrow, grief, woe.heed
English
Noun
(-)- Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.
Usage notes
* Often used with give, pay or take.Synonyms
* (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regardVerb
(en verb)- With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
- Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
